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On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote: |
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> I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit. It seems to come close |
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> to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there is no promise of |
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> confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but to actively |
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> and publicly start collecting data about who is using what seems to only |
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> invite more paranoia. |
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Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the |
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"what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more frequently |
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than they sync. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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